Apparatus for dispensing ice cream



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@T m|w|||m W. ...um W l' E L 4 j a k J J Patented Aug. l2, 1930 UNITEDSTATES WILLIAH R. WILLAUEB, F SPABTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA APPARATUS FOBDISPENSING ICE CREAI Application nled Iarch 26, 1928, Serial No.264,770. Renewed April 5, 1930.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple method and means forreducing the expense and increasing the sanitariness of handlingice-cream in its transmission from the manufacturer through the retaildealer to the retail customer, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing- Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view of a singleice-cream-can receiving unit in an ice-cream refrigerator Fig. 2 is ahorizontal sectional view through Fig. 1, looking downwardly;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of an icecream can 0r containerremoved from the receptacle, packed ready for shipping from themanufacturer to the retailer;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified form of the ice-cream can orcarton;

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the lifting device located in thecan receptacle in the refrigerator;

Fig. 6 is a detail view showing still another modified form of the canor carton.

25 In the drawing, 10 designates a metal or Y other cylindricalreceptacle mounted, as usual, in the refrigerator apparatus inpossession of the retailer. The usual cover 11 is employed for thiscontainer 10. At one side of this receptacle 10, on the inside, ismounted a vertical screw 12 which is adapted to be turned by a wrench orcrank 13 applied to the upper squared end of the screw. On the screw isa nut 14 which is adapted to travel up and down on the screw when thesame is turned by means of the wrench 13. This nut is provided with alateral lug 15 on which is mounted a bottomlate 16, on which rests theice-cream carton 1 A tube 18 surrounds the screw and is aiixed to thereceiving vessel 10, this tube being provided with a vertical slot forthe passage of the neck portion of the ear or lug 15. By this means, thebottom-plate 16 may be raised or lowered within the chamber 10.

The carton 17 rests upon the bottom-plate 16 and, as the ice-cream isremoved from the top of the carton, after removal of its cover 18, thescrew 12 will be operated to raise the carton, to thus render moreaccessible to the 5 retail Clerk the ice-cream within the carton.

As the level of the ice-cream in the carton lowers, the upper part ofthe carton may be removed and discarded. To render this removal of theupper end of the carton easy of accomplishment, I score the carton in asuitable manner. In Figs. 1 and 2, I show a series of annulartearing-lines 19 and a series of staggered vertical tearing-1ines 20, sothat the retail clerk may readily tear oli:` one section after anotheras the ice cream is used up and the carton is elevated. I prefer to formthese tearing-lines by perforating the wall of the carton, and, forcheapness sake, I prefer to make these cartons of paper-board .which maybe suitably paralined or otherwise made more or less water roof. Wherethese tearing-lines are made y perforations, it is desirable that alinin 2l of paraihne or other paper be used whici will prevent theice-cream oozing out through the perforations but at the same time maybe readily torn olf at the up er end when the sections of the carton boy are torn off. This waterproof lining is particularly desirable becauseit is the practice to ll these ice-cream cans at the factory withice-cream while in a liquid state and to subsequently freeze the mass.

In Fig. 4, I show the lines of perforations running spirall around thepaper carton, and in Fi 6 I s ow the sections of the aper carton rabeted together with their )oints closed on the outside by pasted stripsof paper 22. These or any other methods may be used to enable the cartonto be reduced in height, from time to time as the ice cream is removedfrom the carton by the retailer, so that, even when the ice-cream is ina large part removed from the container there will still be no necessityon thepart of the dipping clerk to reach down into the carton. My imethod and apparatus, therefore, do away with the inconvenience ofreaching down into the carton to get the last portion of the icecreamremaimng in the can, and a further advantage is that it does awayentirely with P5 the use of the usual metal cans which are expensive tomake and handle and are otherwise unsanitary and objectionable. Thepaper carton I propose using is for a single use only, as is obvious,and can be made lnex- 100 pensively enough to be used once anddiscarded. Y

It will be understood that the manufacturer will deliver the ice-creamin these lar e paper cartons, sa fve llons each, to e retailer and all te retaller has to do is to place them in the refrigerator container 10and remove the covers 18; they are then ready for dipping out theice-cream in the usual manner.

As stated, when enough of the ice-cream has been removed to make itworth while to do so, the top section or upper part of the carton may betorn ofi' and discarded and the ice-cream container may be elevated byoperatin the screw 12 to bring the top surface of t e ice-cream to aoint where 1t will be convenient to dip it. t is desirable that thepaper bottom 23 shall be fastened to the bottom edge of the carton 17 bymeans of an annular clip 24, and it is desirable also that the liningthat covers the bottom shall have its edge clamped between the angededge o; the bottom 23 and the body of the carton 1 The scope of theinvention is not to be limited by the specific embodiment shown in thedrawing, but only by the appended claim.

What I claim as new is:

In an apparatus for dispensing ice-cream, a can container. mountedwithin the refrigerator and having axed to the interior of its wall avertical tube provided along its inner side with a vertical slot,a'screw mounted in this slotted tube, a nut working on this screw andhaving a shank extending through the slot in said tube, and an ice-creamcansu port mounted on said shank.

n testimony whereof I hereunto ax my signature.

WILLIAM R. WILLAUER.

